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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sleep Med. 2008 Aug 26;10(4):479–489. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2008.04.011

Table 2.

Weekday sleep characteristics of 583 Chinese adolescents* aged 11–20 years based on sleep diary by gender and Tanner stages.

Gender/Tanner
stages
Age (years)
mean (SD)
Bedtime
Sleep latency
Wake-up time
TST§ (hour)
n median
(IQR)
10th 90th median
(IQR)
10th 90th median
(IQR)
10th 90th median
(IQR)
10th 90th
Male
I 13.9 (1.1) 58 20:38 (80) 19:30 22:00 11.5 (10.0) 5.0 30.0 6:00 (46) 5:20 7:00 8.9 (1.8) 7.8 11.3
II 15.2 (1.3) 63 21:18 (60) 20:18 23:00 13.3 (13.5) 5.0 30.0 6:00 (60) 5:19 7:35 8.5 (1.8) 6.5 9.8
III 15.2 (1.1) 68 21:27 (61) 20:00 23:00 15.8 (15.8) 6.7 32.5 6:00 (40) 5:20 6:50 8.3 (1.3) 6.9 9.8
IV 16.6 (1.6) 62 22:00 (75) 21:00 23:08 15.8 (14.8) 8.0 36.0 6:30 (84) 5:35 8:12 8.2 (1.8) 6.6 11.0
V 19.0 (1.1) 56 21:57 (115) 20:24 23:54 23.8 (18.6) 5.0 56.0 8:00 (90) 6:34 9:30 9.5 (2.7) 7.3 11.5
Female
I 12.9 (0.7) 9 21:00 (43) 19:45 21:17 10.0 (4.6) 5.0 23.3 6:00 (3) 5:30 7:00 8.9 (1.0) 8.0 9.9
II 14.6 (1.2) 71 21:06 (90) 19:50 22:30 11.6 (15.0) 5.0 30.0 6:00 (40) 5:30 7:00 8.5 (1.8) 7.1 10.2
III 15.9 (1.3) 110 21:30 (68) 20:30 23:00 12.5 (16.0) 5.0 30.0 6:15 (119) 5:30 8:12 8.6 (1.8) 6.9 10.7
IV 16.6 (1.7) 65 21:43 (90) 20:30 23:30 10.0 (12.7) 5.0 46.0 6:20 (116) 5:30 8:22 8.5 (1.3) 7.0 10.5
V 19.2 (1.4) 21 22:30 (42) 21:08 23:12 18.0 (13.0) 5.0 32.0 8:16 (102) 6:08 9:18 9.3 (1.9) 7.6 10.6
*

Sample size varied from 621 to 583 due to missing Tanner stage data.

§

TST (Total Sleep Time) = wake-up time − bedtime − sleep latency.

IQR: Intraquartile range in minutes for bedtime and wake-up time and in hours for TST.